subtitles for your ears.

bilingual audiobooks anchored to your favourite albums and movies. a sentence in the target language, then the english, then the target language slower. that's the loop. each album or movie volume sits close to something you already love. guided paths take you from a0 to c2. you press play and drift; the meanings arrive without asking. no streaks. no quizzes. no flashcards. no levels. nothing to complete.

traditional apps are a game with points, streaks, drills. built for the moment you opened the app, not for the rest of your week. a phrasebook is a static translation layer with no rhythm to it. driftspeak is the rhythm. authored prose, voiced in pairs, paced for half-attention. no streaks. no quizzes. no flashcards. no levels. no progress tracking. nothing to complete. think audible in bilingual form, not a language app with audio.

no. think of it as a candlelit alternative to lo-fi. you're not meant to be unconscious for it. you're meant to be on a train, in the bath, on a walk, half-listening to something that happens to be in two languages. it behaves like audio streaming, not meditation. not ambient background noise, not active study. audio that earns a different kind of attention.

eight languages today, more on the way. spanish (rosalía · lux, plus the film volver), japanese (mariya takeuchi · variety and akiko yano · tadaima), korean (bts · map of the soul: 7), and mandarin (jay chou · 葉惠美, plus the films yi yi and her). then brazilian portuguese (bossa nova · bossa, plus the film city of god), french (françoise hardy · tous les garçons et les filles), italian (mina · mina, plus the film life is beautiful), and cantonese (eason chan · u·87). seven of them also carry an A0→C2 ladder — five reader+audio levels, foundations to mastery, with a phone-sized pdf reader for each — and a set of word-maps that drift you through one field of words at a time, no drills. buy a volume once, or take the whole shelf for a year. every volume, current and every one we publish next.

no. this is for everyone who quit traditional apps and still cares. there's nothing to complete. the format assumes you'll miss half of it the first time and that's fine. the sentences are short, repeated in context, and paced for half-attention. you didn't fail at language learning. language learning failed you. this is something else.

samples are free, no account needed. a single volume is £4.99, yours forever once you buy it. or take the whole shelf, every volume we've published and every one we publish next, for £35.99 a year. it all lives on the app store, so apple handles the payment and the receipts.

the yearly, any time, from your apple subscriptions, one tap. a volume you bought outright is yours forever, so there's nothing to cancel. no retention flow, no "are you sure."